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Bombardier to discontinue Evinrude outboard motors and Sea Doo sport boats
steve45
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This has been coming for awhile but now its official
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Many lakes no longer allow 2 strokes..
and had another one which would start and run great...just enough to strand you miles from the dock, d then it wouldn't start no matter what you tried.
I had an Old Champion outboard engine that would do the same.
Get out of sight of the boat ramp and the wind come up blowing hard from the direction you needed to go to get back to the ramp and it would not start. Had to really watch the wind direction and not kill the engine if the wind direction was from the boat ramp. Adds new meaning to the term downstream with a good paddle. Had to keep a big trolling motor battery ready and sometimes still had to use the paddle.
Get to the ramp and load the boat and it would start.
I could repair OMC Evinrude/Johnson outboards blindfolded, still have few good ones, 40hp and down, but I stayed away from the old Merc's.
Several Edsels type outboards were around in the 70's-80's, such as OMC electric shift, Scot-Atwater, old Merc's and some air cooled engines that appears to ne Briggs lawn mower engines.
I had one that gave me the same problem, would get hot and only ruin on two of the four cylinders . Finally found a crack in the distributor coil . Get hot it expanded enough to short out . Let cool and good to go for a while . Replaced coil fixed problem . It was an old electric shifty 100 hp . Used it for close to twenty years
I've still got my old '66 Johnson 3hp Seahorse and my '57 model 5 1/2 hp Evinrude that are still running like they were 54 and 63 years ago respectively.
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